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That's pretty impressive that Super George knew all that when he drove by him on the street. Good thing we have armed failed cop wanna be's patrolling the neighborhoods with a license to hunt.

Dude, don't you know that ALL young people walking down the street after a decent hour MUST be a threat to all that is ummm...legal or holy or up and up?  

Trayvon has a gun but it wasn't on him. I also don't think your son would hide and then attack the follower. I hope not.

Hmmm...What if you were walking down a street on your way to a friend's house...Say the neighborhood watch guy didn't know that you were the son of a cop and decided that you might be a danger....He called the PD and they told him to stay where he was and they were on the way.  Say this guy followed you and you were scared that he was going to attack you...hmmm...I guess he would be justified in shooting you...Whoops sorry...

Trayvon has a gun but it wasn't on him. I also don't think your son would hide and then attack the follower. I hope not.

Wow, you seem to know an awful lot....My son doesn't have a gun, but that doesn't mean he wouldn't have hid from someone following him for NO ****ING REASON in his own neighborhood.

Your son (hopefully) doesn't do drugs, have a gun, etc. Trayvon wasn't an angel like the media makes him out to be.

Should he be dead? Absolutely not. Should Zimmerman have gotten manslaughter? Probably.

Idiots protesting and disrupting the peace do no good. A peaceful protest with no confrontations makes a point.

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Did Trayvon have a gun?

Your son (hopefully) doesn't do drugs, have a gun, etc. Trayvon wasn't an angel like the media makes him out to be.

Should he be dead? Absolutely not. Should Zimmerman have gotten manslaughter? Probably.

Idiots protesting and disrupting the peace do no good. A peaceful protest with no confrontations makes a point.

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What if my son smoked pot? And was walking through the neighborhood on his way home to his father?  Just because the neighborhood watch guy doesn't know my son personally, does that give him the right to follow my son?  And shoot him?

I know....There seems to be a difference of opinion on the subject.  Was he targeted because he was black? Or just because he wan an unknown in the neighborhood?  I have had the argument here before.  Lifetime said that he would have followed my kid in his neighborhood if he didn't know who he was.   

And this is why I can't post in this forum.  Because this 17 year old boy is MY son...walking down the street.  Followed by the neighborhood watch guy who didn't recognize him....who thought he might be in danger....and was shot dead. 

My son used to walk late at night to wherever...Taco Bell, 7-11, you name it.  I didn't worry about it until Trayvon.

I am ****ing glad that nobody was out there targeting young white girls in the 70's  because I was far from innocent back in the day.  Just sayin'

I like all these cherubic pics of Martin.  Does anyone recall seeing pictures of him before the tragedy?  Forget the boy scout image, but the MSM wants you to see a young boy scout with a terrific smile.  His pics at the time of death are those of a thug.    

So he deserved to be shot dead....amirite?   **** that stupid ass thug 17 year old for walking down the street.  I don't effing know who he is so I am gonna follow him and shoot him if he looks at me cross eyed.

A 17 year old boy is dead and all you people care about is that the freeways are backed up?

I am not saying that the jury got it wrong, but the law in Florida is wrong.  I don't think anyone should be rioting over this.  I think they should be doing what they can to change the law so this doesn't happen again.  

Thank you Mitch Moreland!

Congrats Nate!  Your story is very similar to my son's who moved to Indiana a few years ago.  They bought a 3 bedroom, 2 bath with a finished basement for $189,000...They love the area (20 minutes from Indianapolis) and are quite happy they made the move.

personal attacks aside, how would you like to be his teamate, knowing that after a mistake on the field, you would be the object of derision and anger by the most visible member of your team, being seen by perhaps millions.

instead of trying to pick up your teamate, you embarrass them.

i would hesisitate to even refer to lackey as a teamate.

Wouldn't you be lying if you did refer to him that way?

What I get from this thread is that a lot of people still care an awful lot about John Lackey

I will always regret not voting twice with my fake California Driver's License back in the day....I only got it to get into bars before I was 21. What a waste!

My roommate and I had the same name on our licenses, so we just went into the bar at different times...not that it would have mattered.

It was the 70's..you could do anything you wanted most of the time.

Nice interview Dave!  What a poised and knowledgeable young woman.

Do these people know how to play the game of baseball?  WTF?

My brother took his Red Sox friends to the game tonight.  The Sox always lose when he does this.  One year they even had to ride the Throwbacks bus after the loss.

Any time Mitch Williams and Larry Bowa are on at the same time, I feel like I have gone into the wayback machine

Holy Crap! Whew!

Effffffffffffff

JB!!!!!

Was it Blarg that made those killer ribs a couple years ago?

Yep....I think he should bring them again

This brought a tear to my eye for sure.  Jered Weaver is a class act.

How about this look?

 

 

Why don't we have a barfing emoticon?

Chuck Richter: Bratwursts, Buns, drinks.

Brian Ilten: Humongous grill, peppers, onions

Nate: Beer, Tasty Pasties

Bruce Nye: Charming Personality 

Eric Notti: 

Nick Mancini +1

David Saltzer

Geoff Stoddart + family

Mike & Sandry Dorsey

BaseballMom: Pasta Salad